Illegal Drugs vs. Legal DrugsWe all know that "street drugs" are illegal drugs, but "legal" prescription drugs kill more people than street drugs, per this New York Times article. These are often addictive anti-psychotic drugs pushed by psychiatrists. New York TimesLegal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida SaysBy DAMIEN CAVEJune 14, 2008 MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit. An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined... Click here to view the complete article. The rampant issuance of highly addictive psychotropic drugs by psychiatrists to millions who have no need for them is now a multi-billion dollar business. One chronic hard drug user recently stated that he could come off heroin and cocaine in 3-5 days, but it took him a month to come off Ritalin, a "legal" drug given to millions of children for "ADAH", Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a dreamed up condition that has no scientific basis for its existance. It looks like we are fast becoming a nation of drug addicts, so enslaved by the psychiatric profession in concert with the giant drug companies. Want proof? Read these excerpts of another article on illegal drugs from the New York Times. Lilly Said to Be Near $1.4 Billion U.S. Settlement on DrugBy GARDINER HARRISJanuary 14, 2009 Eli Lilly, the drug company, is expected to agree as soon as Thursday to pay $1.4 billion to settle criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed its blockbuster antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unauthorized use in patients particularly vulnerable to its risky side effects... Among the charges, Lilly has been accused of a years-long scheme to persuade doctors to prescribe Zyprexa to two categories of patients — children and the elderly — for whom the drug was not federally approved and in whom its use was especially risky... In the United States, most of Zyprexa’s sales are paid for by government programs because so many of those taking Zyprexa are indigent or disabled. Zyprexa had sales of $4.8 billion in 2007, making it the biggest seller by far for Lilly, whose revenue that year was $18.6 billion. Depending on dosage, the drug can cost as much as $25 for a daily pill... Just about every major drug company in recent years has pleaded guilty or is under investigation for urging doctors to use medicines beyond their approved uses... Zyprexa, for instance, has generated more than $39 billion in sales since its approval in 1996, making it one of the biggest-selling drugs in the world. As much as half of Zyprexa’s use is estimated to be for unapproved or “off label” use, the $1.4 billion fine — punishment for years of illegal marketing efforts — represent less than one year of off-label sales of the drug... The complete article on drugs can be found by clicking on this link. The drug company practice of paying psychiatrists millions to push addictive drugs often illegally well beyond their intended use is wide spread. See these excerpts from recent articles.
Psychiatrist to Curtail Industry-Funded ActivitiesBy PAM BELLUCKDecember 30, 2008 A prominent Harvard child psychiatrist will curtail activities financed by the drug industry while Massachusetts General Hospital investigates his failure for years to disclose the consulting fees he received from drug makers. Earlier this year, a Congressional investigation of payments received by physicians from industry sources found that Dr. Biederman had been paid at least $1.6 million in consulting fees by drug makers from 2000 to 2007, but had failed to report much of this income to Harvard officials for several years. Dr. Biederman has been a leading advocate for the idea that very young children can suffer from bipolar disorder... His research contributed to a forty-fold increase in diagnoses of pediatric bipolar disorder from 1994 to 2003, as well as to a rapid increase in the prescribing of potent and potentially dangerous antipsychotic drugs to children. (Our emphasis.) For the full text of the above article, click on this link. But this is just the tip of the iceberg! Here is the whole sordid story from an in depth investigation published in Rolling Stone magazine.
Rolling Stone SPECIAL REPORTMarketing a Phony "Miracle" DrugBy Ben Wallace-WellsJan 28, 2009
How one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies turned a flawed, dangerous pill into a multi-billion-dollar bonanza — and who paid the price. (Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/issue1071) There are an increasing number of investigations and legal actions underway against drug companies and psychiatrists by state and federal authorities for the unauthorized, dangerous and illegal overuse of psychotropic drugs. We will be adding updated media on this scene accessed from the bottom of this page. You can help by reporting directly to the FDA MedWatch is the U.S. system of reporting to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) that encourages consumers and doctors to report a serious adverse reaction to a medicine or medical device. It is voluntary and plays a critical role in the FDA's post-marketing surveillance of an approved drug/product. Drug Adverse Reaction reports are evaluated along with those received from manufacturers and can result in safety alerts, labeling changes with stronger side effect warnings, or even the withdrawal of the drug from the market. That is why it is important for all consumers to report psychiatric drug side effects. Or report any sort of Mental Health Abuse by clicking on this link. Keep abreast of this ongoing illegal drugs story by clicking on the links at the bottom of the page.For advice on handling addiction from both legal and illegal drugs, complete the form below.
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